Something to celebrate, at last

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The Celebrate the City event the weekend before last must be deemed a
roaring success, and due a repeat in coming years. This was an attempt to
highlight the Square Mile with more than 120 mostly free events and a bit of
a warm-up for the Olympic Games. It also showed the City in a rare good
light.

The attendance figures just out show that, for example, more than 27,500
people attended the Cheapside Fayre, when one of the City’s busiest streets
was closed to traffic and returned to something like its medieval roots,
with free ice cream, tuk-tuk rides

It is understandable that the construction of an air-polluting,
noise-blighting £22 billion third runway to turn Heathrow into the world’s
pre-eminent superhub caught the eye, but the Davies report into airport
expansion also made another radical suggestion: that — third runway or not —
Heathrow should start acting like the UK hub that it pretends to be